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"Chris P. Carrot" Banned from Nashville TN Schools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsiedee@MIT.EDU)
Wed May 15 01:20:10 1996
From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 01:19:16 EDT
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Subject: "Chris P. Carrot" Banned From Nashville TN Schools
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"Chris P. Carrot" Banned
From Nashville Schools
Vegetarian Mascot Greets Kids
Just Off School Grounds
For Immediate Release:
May 9, 1996
Contact:
Tracy Reiman 615-244-6690 or 800-946-4646, pin # 1167631
Kathy Savory 301-770-7444, ext. 632
Nashville, Tenn. -- With a basket of buttons reading, "Eat Your Veggies, Not
Your Friends,"
Chris P. Carrot, PETA's 7-foot-tall vegetarian mascot, will greet students
outside two Nashville
elementary schools, both on Friday, May 10:
Lake View Elementary, 455 Rural Hill Rd., at 8:30 a.m.
Eakin Elementary, 2500 Fairfax Ave., at 2:40 p.m.
After banning Chris P. Carrot from giving a presentation to students on
vegetarianism inside
the school, Lake View Elementary's Peggy Stevens stated that, concerning
what kids eat,
"younger children don't have a choice." Undaunted, Chris P. Carrot will
greet children before
and after class, promoting vegetarianism and exposing the health hazards and
animal
suffering inherent in meat.
Headlines everywhere are trumpeting vegetarianism as the new youth
trend--even Britain's
Prince Harry wants to give beef the boot. Yet, on any given day in the
United States, one out of
four schoolchildren does not eat any fruit or vegetables. The U.S. National
Cholesterol
Education Program warns that heart disease begins during childhood and
recommends a
low-fat, low-cholesterol diet for kids as young as two. In fact, the USDA
has doubled the
amount of fruit and vegetables in school lunches, acknowledging the fact
that "there's no
question any longer of the relationship between diet and chronic diseases."
Says PETA's Tracy Reiman, "Feeding children meat is child abuse. Meat-eating
leads to
obesity, heart disease, and cancer. Chris P. Carrot wants to help children stay
healthy--health-conscious parents should love him."
Earlier this week, Chris P. Carrot visited kids in Little Rock, Ark., and
Memphis, Tenn.
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